The 2007 winner of the Brid Rodgers’ sponsored Most Over-Hyped Election Candidate must surely go to her unfortunate party colleague, Sharon Haughey. Haughey had been widely tipped by commentators as providing the SDLP’s best chance at taking a seat back from Sinn Fein in this election, and even up to the morning of the count SDLP ‘insiders’ were briefing the media that she looked good for the seat.
In the end, she was well out of the reckoning. But who were the other big disappointments in this election? Over to you, Sluggerites.
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The 2007 winner of the Brid Rodgers’ sponsored Most Over-Hyped Election Candidate must surely go to her unfortunate party colleague, Sharon Haughey. Haughey had been widely tipped by commentators as providing the SDLP’s best chance at taking a seat back from Sinn Fein in this election, and even up to the morning of the count SDLP ‘insiders’ were briefing the media that she looked good for the seat.
